So the special edition demo has started to go out to people in the States and of course it's out there for people who rely on other means to obtain it.
First of all, I took some screenshots until my Memory Stick ran out of space for them. This takes it about a third of the way through the demo and the last three are linked because they might be minor spoilers for those who want to be surprised when they get it, although I think the scene was on the 1Up Show a while back.
Suffice to say it looks unbelievable for a PSP game, and the scope of a couple of later scenes is as big as the PS2 versions. It can chug when loading a new area and a bit when there's a lot (and I mean a lot) going on at once, but it's remarkably close to the PS2 games and is running on a handheld, after all.
They seem to have done a decent job of transposing the controls onto fewer buttons, with the only downside being that they've had to double up a couple of things. Evasive rolling requires you to hold both shoulder buttons and move the nub, and casting spells (there's one in the demo) is handled by holding R and pressing the corresponding face button, for example.
And if anyone's wondering, the big event enemy at the beginning to GOW's Hydra and GOW2's Colossus is a huge
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First of all, I took some screenshots until my Memory Stick ran out of space for them. This takes it about a third of the way through the demo and the last three are linked because they might be minor spoilers for those who want to be surprised when they get it, although I think the scene was on the 1Up Show a while back.
Suffice to say it looks unbelievable for a PSP game, and the scope of a couple of later scenes is as big as the PS2 versions. It can chug when loading a new area and a bit when there's a lot (and I mean a lot) going on at once, but it's remarkably close to the PS2 games and is running on a handheld, after all.
They seem to have done a decent job of transposing the controls onto fewer buttons, with the only downside being that they've had to double up a couple of things. Evasive rolling requires you to hold both shoulder buttons and move the nub, and casting spells (there's one in the demo) is handled by holding R and pressing the corresponding face button, for example.
And if anyone's wondering, the big event enemy at the beginning to GOW's Hydra and GOW2's Colossus is a huge
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(which is when btw? 
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